South Africa is Africa’s southernmost country. It is bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini (Swaziland) and Lesotho (which is completely surrounded by South Africa). It is a large country with widely varying landscapes, 11 official languages, and an equally diverse population.
South Africa is located at the southernmost tip of Africa, with a long coastline that stretches more than 2,500 km and along two oceans (the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean). It is a relatively dry country within the interior, especially in the Kalahari Desert, the Northern Cape, and north west Atlantic region. There are two major rivers; the Limpopo, running easterly along the northern border and the Orange river, running roughly from the central regions southwestwards to the Atlantic Ocean. The Drakensberg Mountain range runs from the lower Eastern Cape to the KwaZulu-Natal and Eswatini with elevations exceeding 3000 meters. The Highfelt and platterland regions of Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Northwest, range between 1200 and 1800 meters in altitude, and is home to some of the best wildlife conservation reserves in the world. The coastal areas from the southern Cape and farmland region, up the Indian Ocean seaboard all the way to KwaZulu-Natal and the Eswatini and Mozambique borders, provide the country with the densest green regions.
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